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With more than 1 billion users, Facebook is the world’s largest social network. Founder Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004 while he was an undergraduate computer science student at Harvard University.

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Facebook's location feature, dubbed Facebook Places, has launched in the UK today, one month after it went live in the U.S. Facebook is rolling out the feature for UK users gradually, meaning it may not be available for everyone immediately. To check...

Wanna hear the Trent Reznor-spun score to The Social Network before it hits screens this October? Well, you're in luck, because Reznor, along with his record company, The Null Corporation, and Sony's Madison Gate Records has decided to self-release t...

Jonathan Ostrow is the co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network based on a social networking platform for the emerging music community. Most people use geolocation services like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places to share their locatio...

If you were a fan of the Bed Intruder Dude, then steel yourself for a new addition to the canon of Internet heroes: the "Dude, You Have No Quran"... Dude. Adherents to the viral Interwebs, meet Jacob Isom, the 23-year-old pizzeria employee who rocket...

Fashion Week has experienced nothing short of a revolution -- or evolution, if you will -- over the last five years, largely due to the advent of social media. What was once a series of exclusive events and parties for designers, buyers, media, model...

The young team behind Facebook alternative Diaspora has just released the project's source code, and in doing so, has put both the team and the scheme up for examination by an international (and often quite critical) group of peers. Developers have b...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. While much of finding what works for your business on social media sites i...

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After announcing it back in August, the folks at Diaspora, an open-source Facebook alternative, have kept their promise, releasing the project's source code to developers Wednesday. Now that the code is open to everyone, could Diaspora become to Face...

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Anticipation is rising for the October 1 debut of The Social Network, the film that explores the history of Facebook and how it was founded. With just two weeks left before its debut in theaters, the film is launching its interactive trailer, chock-f...

Sardonic misanthropes rejoice: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns to TV tomorrow for its sixth season, and with it comes a multi-platform social media campaign designed to rally fans around the popular show. Sunny Tweets is an app that lives o...

Want to see The Social Network before all your friends, along with talent from the movie? You're in luck. Mashable invites you to a private screening of the upcoming movie on Monday, September 27 in NYC, just days before it arrives in theaters. We're...

Can data from Facebook’s increasingly ubiquitous “Like” buttons give Microsoft an advantage in the search wars? The software giant may be banking on it, as AllThingsD reports the two companies are "deep in talks" about expanding their search partners...

OnStar today confirmed rumors of social integration with its next generation in-vehicle technologies. The ninth-generation hardware from OnStar will support both audio Facebook statuses and SMS messages. The service will read Facebook and SMS to driv...

Companies are starting to broaden what they consider online advertising, and are opting to run some amazing social media campaigns. Rather than slapping a banner ad on a site, social media campaigns take full advantage of the web's unique properties ...

Fundraising is a key component for most social good campaigns and projects. Thanks to the the Internet and the social web, raising money for a non-profit, community project or charitable organization or relief effort is easier than ever before. The w...

Have you always wanted a hacker of your very own? Well, now you can take one home with Adopt a Hacker -- provided you're part of the New York startup scene, that is. Adopt A Hacker is a project that launched yesterday in order to persuade more hacker...

Twitter is about to become a major multimedia destination, thanks to some new partners and features. Earlier today, we reported that Twitter is bringing multimedia to the stream. If you tweet a link to a video, for example, it will be embedded and pl...

Formspring, the extremely viral Q&A platform, hit a huge milestone this past weekend: one billion questions answered. Formspring, which launched around nine months ago, has been going like gangbusters lately. According to a company rep, the site curr...

Treading in the footsteps of great men like U.S. President Barack Obama and the Old Spice Guy, Conan has taken to YouTube today to ask his fans and followers to submit questions about his upcoming show on TBS. He will then answer said questions in an...

Hey folks, here's a hot tip: If you're going to say offensive, mean things via your Facebook status, you might want to go ahead and make your profile private. That's the thrust of the online game Who Said It?, which recently sprung from the evil geni...

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It's always been an uphill battle to bring social media to larger companies and organizations. In the case of Dilbert's company, that uphill battle is more like a mountain. Our favorite white-collared comic strip has taken on Twitter and tackled the ...

Pennsylvania's Harrisburg University of Science and Technology will enact a week-long social media blackout for all students in residence. The students will be forbidden from using Twitter, Facebook, instant messaging and any other online communicati...

It's Monday! Welcome back to work (or school). We hope you had a fantastic weekend, but the world of tech, social media, entertainment, business and everything else didn't stop spinning while you were away. Thus, we've collected some of the most help...

With school finally starting in earnest, we understand if you missed one or two of our essential resources from the past week or so. The 29 lists and reviews below will get you fully caught up on all things social. Our Social Media section takes a lo...

Facebook just launched a new web app not-so-memorably dubbed "Discover Facebook’s Popular Pages." It's a visual interface intended to help you find more pages to "Like" based on your past selections, what's popular and what your friends like. The app...

People said it would happen with Foursquare, it may have already happened with Twitter, and now the trend has continued on Facebook: Burglars in Nashua, New Hampshire looked at updates from Facebook to figure out when one target wasn't at home. Polic...

Get ready to don your highest heels, and your most envy-inducing outfit, because tonight we are going shopping. As part of New York Fashion Week, Fashion's Night Out, the late-night shopping extravaganza (initially meant to give New York City's econo...

This post originally appeared on Forbes.com, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about social media, business and technology. Citing a recovering economy and increasing marketer interest in the space, research company eMarketer recently rai...

Facebook members can now put the virtual currency known as Facebook Credits toward a more charitable purpose, using them to donate to the Stand Up To Cancer cause. Stand Up To Cancer is a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, a non-profit...

With all those millions of Facebook and iPhone users tending to virtual crops and sharing them with friends, have you ever wondered how their toils stack up against actual real-life farmers? How does our output of digital (and decidedly less tasty) t...

We already know that Facebook is the web's biggest time sink. If you look at the average amount of time (according to Nielsen) users spend on the social network, Facebook is a clear winner over sites such as Google or Yahoo. Now, according to comScor...

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